I recently picked this coin up and wanted to share. I particularly love the detail in the ears of grain in Demeter's hair. The cabinet toning is nice too and coupled with the ok provenance it makes up for the slightly weak strike on the reverse for me. LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 290-280 BC. AR Nomos (21mm, 7.82 g, 1h). Head of Demeter right, wearing wreath of grain ears, triple-pendant earring, and necklace; Π behind neck / Barley ear with leaf to left; to left, head of ram right and |-A above leaf; META downward to right. Johnston Class D, 3.1 (this coin referenced and illustrated); HN Italy 1617; SNG Gale 663 (same dies). Good VF, deep gray tone with iridescent hues, small spot of weak strike on reverse. Ex CNG Triton XXII (January 2019), lot 51 from the Gasvoda Collection, Ex Waddell inventory 51792 (April 2015); Numismatica Ars Classica P (12 May 2005), lot 1068; A. D. Moretti Collection.
Congratulations! A.D.M is a wonderful pedigree and that's a great example. Interestingly, the in-slab photo looks a grade lower than the most recent auction photo. As if photographing coins wasn't hard enough, slabs do add another level of complexity.
Thanks @AncientJoe ! I was happy to be able to pick this one up. As I acquire more slabbed examples, I lean more towards cracking the majority of them out. They look WAY better out of the slabs and ultimately I would like to take a photo of most of them together in a single photo.
Wow, that's a beautiful example with a wonderful provenance and publication history. My example is one of the Leukippos Nomos (Nomoi? maybe people prefer "Stater" for the easy pluralization!). It's one of my frustrating provenance dead-ends. It came from the JB (Edmonton, d. 2019) Collection, who I've tried to research a bit since I discovered his coins unexpectedly came to me from four different pathways in 2019. I'm certain this one doesn't appear in ACSearch (I could try harder in Coryssa.org, from which I've had a number of successes) but always keep my eyes open every time I get a new catalog or FPL or scan a new pdf of an old catalog online. I believe it's rather a scarce die-combination though I've found a few other examples. One thing I like about this obverse die is that the eyelashes are quite visible, as on the Dinomos type. Lucania, Metapontum (340 - 330 BC). AR Nomos/Stater (21mm, 7.79g, 7h). temp. Alexander Molossian, King of Epirus. Obv: Helmeted head of Leukippos right. To left: Lion's head. Below: Monogram (Gamma?) Rev: META. Grain ear with leaf. Club of Hercules above leaf. Below: AMI monogram of Alexander. Ref: Johnston class B 2.35; HN Italy 1575 Prov: Ex-VAuctions Triskeles Sale 30 (6 Dec 2019), Lot 6. Ex-JB (Edmonton, d. 2019) Collection (with his original named insert/or insert from his estate?)
That is a very nice coin! I would eventually like to add one of this type, but any I've bid on have been pretty hotly contested. Yours is definitely an attractive example of the type!
Lovely examples and great pedigree @kazuma78 ! Until fairly recently these have always been called staters or didrachms but I see more and more auction houses and dealers use the term Nomos. Here's one of mine that is quite rare: Head of Demeter right hair bound with fillet, wearing earring. Punch mark on ear. METAΠON (retrograde) Ear of barely with leaf to right; on which palmette. circa 400-340 6.09g Noe 485b. Jameson 287. SNG Lloyd 365. SNG ANS 367. HN Italy 1540. An extremely rare variety, only two specimens cited by Noe This example has the reverse ethnic in retrograde and low weight but in hand shows no evidence of being plated.
